Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Cambodia

This is probably not how Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm pictured his holiday in Cambodia ending. TheWall Street Journal reports that Cambodian police arrested Svartholm on Sunday for the alleged “illegal use of information technology” in a joint operation with Swedish law enforcement officials. The Journal says that Svartholm could now be sent back to his native Sweden, where he faces a one-year jail sentence for violating copyright law. While Svartholm would probably rather not go to jail, his one-year sentence still beats old-school pirate punishments such as keelhauling and walking the plank.